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Adolphe Gouhenant: French Revolutionary, Utopian Leader, and Texas Frontier Photographer
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Adolphe Gouhenant tells the story of artist, revolutionary, and early North Texas resident Francois Ignace (Adolphe) Gouhenant (1804-1871). Gouhenant was selected by well-known Icarian communist Etienne Cabet to lead an advance guard from France to settle a utopian colony in North Texas. The community, beset by hardships, ultimately scapegoated Gouhenant, accused him of being a French agent, and expelled him. He then journeyed first to Fort Worth to teach the federal soldiers French and art, and next to Dallas, where he founded the town’s first arts establishment in the 1850s. Gouhenant set up shop as a daguerreotypist and photographed the town’s early residents. His Arts Saloon was the scene of many exhibitions and dances but ultimately became the high stake in a nasty battle among Dallas’s leading citizens, setting legal precedent for Texas homestead law.
Date:
October 2019
Creator:
Selzer, Paula & Pécontal, Emmanuel
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Along the Texas Forts Trail
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The task of providing military defense for the Texas Frontier was never an easy one because the territory was claimed by some of the greatest querrilla fighters of all times—the Comanches, Kiowas, Apaches, and Lipans. Protecting a line running from the Red River southwest to El Paso was an impossible task, but following the Mexican War the federal government attempted to do so by establishing a line of forts. During the Civil War the forts were virtually abandoned and the Indians once again ruled the area. Following the war when the military began to restore the old forts, they found that the Indians no longer fought with bows and arrows but shouldered the latest firearms. With their new weapons the Indians were able to inflict tremendous destruction, bringing demands from settlers for more protection. In the summer of 1866 a new line of forts appeared through central Texas under the leadership of General Philip H. Sheridan, commander of federal forces in Louisiana and Texas. Guardians of a raw young land and focal points of high adventure, the old forts were indispensable in their day of service and it is fitting that they be preserved. In and around the forts and …
Date:
October 15, 1997
Creator:
Aston, B. W.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Andersonvilles of the North: the Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners
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Soon after the close of military operations in the American Civil War, another war began over how it would be remembered by future generations. The prisoner-of-war issue has figured prominently in Northern and Southern writing about the conflict. Northerners used tales of Andersonville to demonize the Confederacy, while Southerners vilified Northern prison policies to show the depths to which Yankees had sunk to attain victory. Over the years the postwar Northern portrayal of Andersonville as fiendishly designed to kill prisoners in mass quantities has largely been dismissed. The Lost Cause characterization of Union prison policies as criminally negligent and inhumane, however, has shown remarkable durability. Northern officials have been portrayed as turning their military prisons into concentration camps where Southern prisoners were poorly fed, clothed, and sheltered, resulting in inexcusably high numbers of deaths. Andersonvilles of the North, by James M. Gillispie, represents the first broad study to argue that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study is not an attempt to “whitewash” Union prison policies or make light of Confederate prisoner mortality. But once the careful reader disregards unreliable postwar polemics, and focuses exclusively on the more reliable …
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October 15, 2008
Creator:
Gillispie, James M.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination
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On November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy. Thus began Darwin Payne’s close involvement in covering one shocking event after another on this history-making weekend. Eyewitnesses he found at Dealey Plaza included Abraham Zapruder, who insisted from the first moments that the president could not have survived the serious wounds he had seen so clearly through his camera viewfinder. Payne interviewed detectives outside the School Book Depository that early afternoon as they brought down evidence of the shooter’s location, as well as his rifle, and he was among several journalists taken to the assassin’s sixth-floor window from where fatal shots had been fired. Before the day ended, Payne was in the Oak Cliff rooming house where the suspect had been living briefly apart from his Russian wife, Marina. Payne learned that the alleged assassin, now in police custody after being charged with the murder of officer J. D. Tippit, was known as O. H. Lee instead of Lee Harvey Oswald. On Payne’s regular Saturday night police-beat duty, he was among the growing …
Date:
October 2023
Creator:
Payne, Darwin
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Berlin's History in Context: The Foreign Ministry and the Spreebogen Complex in the Context of the Architectural Debates
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Book chapter discussing Berlin, Germany's history in context and the Foreign Ministry and Spreebogen Complex in the context of the architectural debates.
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October 1, 2011
Creator:
Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
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Book Chapter
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The UNT Digital Library
The Big Thicket Guidebook: Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas
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Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates—all as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet some unusual characters who inhabited an exceptional region. The Big Thicket and its National Preserve contain plants and animals from deserts and swamps and ecosystems in between, all together in one amazing Biological Crossroad. The fifteen tours included with maps will take you through them all. Visitors curious about a legendary area will find this book an essential companion in their cars. Libraries will use the book as a reference to locate information on ghost towns, historic events, and National Preserve features. “A result of a prodigious amount of local research as well as a great deal of driving and tramping around, this book might end up as a classic.”—Thad Sitton, author of Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley
Date:
October 15, 2011
Creator:
Bonney, Lorraine G.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Big Thicket Plant Ecology: an Introduction
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Originally published in 1979, Geraldine Ellis Watson’s Big Thicket Plant Ecology is now back in print. This updated edition explores the plant biology, ecology, geology, and environmental regions of the Big Thicket National Preserve. After decades of research on the Big Thicket, Watson concluded that the Big Thicket was unique for its biological diversity, due mainly to interactions of geology and climate. A visitor in the Big Thicket could look in four different directions from one spot and view scenes typical of the Appalachians, the Florida Everglades, a southwestern desert, or the pine barrens of the Carolinas. Watson covers the ecological and geological history of the Big Thicket and introduces its plant life, from longleaf pines and tupelo swamps to savannah wetlands and hardwood flats. “This is the work on the plant biology of the Big Thicket.”—Pete A.Y. Gunter, author of The Big Thicket
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October 15, 2006
Creator:
Watson, Geraldine Ellis
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
[Brief Interview with Andy Narell]
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Interview with Andy Narell about his experience playing, composing, and teaching steel band music at UNT. It originally aired during the intermission of the Global Rhythms concert.
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October 29, 2012
Creator:
Narell, Andy
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Video
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The UNT Digital Library
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 2, July 29, 1876 - April 7, 1878
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs. Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourkes diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of six books easily accessible to the modern researcher. This volume opens as Crook prepares for the expedition that would lead to his infamous and devastating Horse Meat March. Although Bourke retains his loyalty to Crook throughout the detailed account, his patience is sorely tried at times. Bourke's description of the march is …
Date:
October 15, 2005
Creator:
Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896 & Robinson, Charles M. III
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 3, June 1, 1878-June 22, 1880
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs. Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourke's diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of eight books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 3 begins in 1878 with a discussion of the Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose death Bourke called "an event of such importance, and with its attendant circumstances pregnant with so much of good or evil for the settlement between …
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October 15, 2007
Creator:
Bourke, John Gregory
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 5, May 23, 1881 - August 26, 1881
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fifth volume opens at Fort Wingate as Bourke prepares to visit the Navajos. Next, at the Pine River Agency, he is witness to the Sun Dance, where despite his discomfort at what he saw, he noted that during the Sun Dance piles of food and clothing were contributed by the Indians themselves, to relieve the poor among their people. Bourke continued his travels among the Zunis, the Rio Grande pueblos, and finally, with the Hopis to attend the Hopi Snake dance. The volume concludes at Fort Apache, Arizona, which is stirring with excitement over the activities of the Apache medicine man, Nakai’-dokli’ni, which Bourke spelled Na Kay do Klinni. This would erupt into bloodshed less than a week later. Volume Five is particularly important because it deals almost exclusively with Bourke’s ethnological research. Bourke’s account of the Sun Dance is particularly significant because it was the last one held by the Oglalas. The volume is extensively annotated and contains a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named.
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October 15, 2012
Creator:
Robinson, Charles M. III
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Ensemble: 1991-10-04 – Avon Gillespie Memorial Scholarship Concert
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Ensembles concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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October 4, 1991
Creator:
University of North Texas. A Cappella Choir.
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Sound
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Ensemble: 1996-10-25 – Opera
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Recording of the Friday evening performance of "Opera Without Elephants" at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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October 25, 1996, 7:30 p.m.
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University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.
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Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Ensemble: 1996-10-31 - Wind Symphony
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Wind Symphony concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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October 31, 1996
Creator:
North Texas Wind Symphony
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Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Ensemble: 1999-10-30-Dialogues of the Carmelites
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A performance of the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.
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October 30, 1999
Creator:
University of North Texas. Opera.
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Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Ensemble: 2000-10-06 - Symphony Orchestra
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Ensemble performance at the UNT College of Music.
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October 6, 2000
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University of North Texas. Symphony Orchestra.
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Sound
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Ensemble: 2000-10-13 – One O'Clock Lab Band, A Cappella Choir, and Wind Symphony
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Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
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October 13, 2000
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One O'Clock Lab Band
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Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Ensemble: 2000-10-23 - Les Petits Violons
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Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music.
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October 23, 2000
Creator:
Les Petits Violons
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Sound
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Ensemble: 2001-10-03 - Symphony Orchestra
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Ensemble performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
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October 3, 2001
Creator:
University of North Texas. Symphony Orchestra.
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Sound
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Ensemble: 2001-10-30 - Grand Chorus
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Ensemble performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
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October 30, 2001
Creator:
University of North Texas. Grand Chorus.
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Sound
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Ensemble: 2002-10-25 – Symphony Orchestra
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Concert presented at Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.
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October 25, 2002
Creator:
University of North Texas. Symphony Orchestra.
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Sound
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Ensemble: 2003-10-26 - UNT Opera Theatre
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Opera presented at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.
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October 26, 2003
Creator:
UNT Opera Theatre
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Ensemble: 2004-10-01 - UNT Opera Theatre: Hansel and Gretel
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Concert presented at the Lyric Theater at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.
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October 1, 2004
Creator:
UNT Opera Theatre
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Sound
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Ensemble: 2004-10-29 – Canticum Novum
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Concert performed in UNT College of Music Recital Hall on October 29, 2004 at 8:00 pm.
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October 29, 2004
Creator:
University of North Texas. Canticum Novum.
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Sound
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The UNT Digital Library